Sean Mann - Stratovarium (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Ever since I started playing guitar at 13, I knew instantly that this was the path I had to follow. I caught the bug quickly and have since been perfecting my craft to the best of my ability. I’ve been playing professionally for 16 years and have performed in a variety of different bands throughout my musical career, each one offering me valuable experience in the music industry by allowing me to perform in a range of different venues with a vast array of musicians throughout the UK.
My musical education began when I was 13. I got my first guitar and formed a band with some friends from school who shared the same passion as me. I was obsessed with Guns N’ Roses, it was literally the only thing I listened to for those first few years. Slash had a fluid style which made him stand out from other rock players, I didn’t realise until later on in my musical journey why Slash’s playing struck a chord with me. His bluesy phrasing and laid back fluidity is an aspect of guitar playing which would infect me to this day.
Those formative years bled into a lifelong obsession with music and playing guitar. I went on to study music performance at college and then University, which connected me with likeminded professionals and granted me an opportunity to record at Abbey Road Studios in London, 2015. During these years at college and University, I really started to open myself up to different styles of music. Everything from funk, jazz, blues, and pop… which is where I discovered John Mayer. I was drawn to Mayer the same way I was obsessed with Slash. His playing was bluesy, raw and fluid - something I was striving to achieve since I began playing guitar at 13. After diving down the Mayer rabbit hole on YouTube, I began really learning about guitar tone. The glassy Stratocaster bell tone seemed to be where I would find all of the answers to my questions, if I could get that tone I would be as good as Mayer. Right?…
I believe every guitar player goes through this. Dreaming about the ultimate guitar rig, scrolling through Reverb.com in the hopes of catching a deal on a ridiculously priced pedal no working class musician could realistically afford. I decided early on I wasn’t going to focus on acquiring expensive gear, instead I would work on what made these guitar players so enticing to me as a listener. I did this by learning their back catalogues note for note and later by looking at their influences.

TRACKLIST

1. Sean Mann - Drivetrain
2. Sean Mann - Ride The Wave
3. Sean Mann - House of the Rising Sun
4. Sean Mann - Kyoto
5. Sean Mann - El Vaquero
6. Sean Mann - Wake Up
7. Sean Mann - Gunslinger
8. Sean Mann - The Shifter
9. Sean Mann - Rain Dance
10. Sean Mann - Little Haven



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